Golden volumes! richest treasures!
Objects of delicious pleasures!
You my eyes rejoicing please,
You my hands in rapture seize!
Brilliant wits, and musing sages,
Lights who beamed through many ages,
Left to your conscious leaves their story,
And dared to trust you with their glory;
And now their hope of fame achieved,
Dear volumes! you have not deceived!
Heinrich Rantzau [or Ranzow / Ranzovius] (1526 – 1598) Germany
Translated by Isaac D'Israeli
Source: Curiosities of literature, Vol 1, by Isaac D'Israeli, Baudry's European Library, 1835
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